Overview —“ Holy Wars—¦ The Punishment Due, the lead off track of Megadeth’s most acclaimed record, Rust In Peace, is only one of nine examples of why this album is praised to highly. Although not the only reason why this album was so good, but definitely one of the …

In 1983, I attended a concert with Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band playing. It was a wonderful concert. The best concert I had been to in a very long time. Fully enjoyed myself. It was my pleasure to once again get to see …

Overview —“ Wake Up Dead, a music video and single released by Megadeth for their second record, Peace Sells—¦ But Whose Buying, is the first single ever released by the band and a song that should certainly introduce a listener to the aggressive sounds of Megadeth. To be totally …

The Close Lobsters are probably a band that a majority of you haven’t heard of. Hell, if it wasn’t for Pandora Radio, I’d probably would have never heard of them either. They are originally from Paisley, Scotland and did have a rather short lived career. Despite that, I feel …

Artist: Beyonce ft. Shakira
Video: “Beautiful Liar”
Album: B-Day
Label: Columbia
Director: Jake Nava
I would love to see the director’s cut of this music video where Beyonce and Shakira do the things that we are not supposed to see with our public virgin eyes. “Beautiful Liar” is the fifth single and music video …

Artist: Destiny’s Child
Video: Survivor
Album: Survivor
Label: Columbia Records
Director: Darren Grant
The three women of Destiny’s Child reunite with music video director Darren Grant once again (whom had directed most of their early music videos) for “Survivor”, the group’s first single and music video from their third album also titled “Survivor”, following …

Tina Turner is an African-American musician who started out her career with ex-late husband Ike Turner but later on when solo to great sucess. The album that I own was Released by Capital Records in 1991.
1.The Best(4.08)the vocal are great on this track, the beatings are okay and so …

Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue is one of the greatest patriotic country songs I have heard in several years. It is sung by Toby Keith as a tribute and a motivational tool for our troops. Being a veteran I can remember how much it meant to …

Revelations is a song by Iron Maiden which appears on their album Piece Of Mind. The track starts off with a moderately-paced riff which has a nice and heavy sound and allows room for an interesting bass fill by Harris in between the riff as well. The riff for …

Harvester Of Sorrow, the sixth track off of And Justice For All, is a track which I initially never liked very much but now have come to gain at least a bit more appreciation for the track. I think that the main problem I had with Harvester Of Sorrow …

Why Jennifer Lopez has gone in producing this video with only her as the star, I do not know. What I can tell, is that she could have made more sales with this awesome track (as it really has some interesting new beats!) if she would have featured other …

It was the Sway single that first introduced me to the music of international crooner Michael Buble. When I first heard the song, I thought it was so catchy, I just fell in love with the rhythm. It is certainly one nice song to dance to in …

Infinite Dreams is a song by Iron Maiden which appears on their record Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son. The track starts off in a melodic fashion being led by a guitar solo before leading into the verse of the track. Although the track is pretty laid-back during the …

Sainthood is Tegan and Sara’s most recently released studio album. As a fun fact, it features the first two tracks ever that both twins collaborated to write, namely “Hell” and “The Cure.” The album is a throwback to their earlier work, sort of like a mix between So Jealous …

The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for 500 Days of Summer is probably one of the best movie soundtracks that I have ever owned. Whoever was in charge of picking the songs to go in this movie did a wonderful job of it. These are songs that both remind me …

Lil Wayne just released his much awaited cd Tha Carter 3 and having heard so much about his amazing rhymes I thought that I would give the cd a listen. I figured I had nothing to lose since it was supposed to be one of the best cds of …

Let’s Go Get Stoned is a song by Sublime and is the eighth track on their debut release 40 Oz. To Freedom. The track opens up with the vocals immediately entering the mix along with the usual instrumentation of guitar, drums, and bass as well. In the beginning of …

Operator is a song by the Grateful Dead which appears on their album American Beauty. Opening up with a light guitar rhythm and a background rhythm, the song immediately has a fairly country-like feel to it and this is only reinforced once the vocals come in. I should mention …

Eyes Open is a song by Wolfmother which appears on their second album, Cosmic Egg. The track wastes no time in opening up with an interesting guitar pattern and the vocals also join in the mix pretty quickly as well. Throughout the verse, the vocals sound fairly tamed in …

I have been a Napster customer for over a year and I am very pleased with their service. When you log in, you are taken to the home page, where new music is highlighted. I like to take a quick peek and sometimes I listen to a track …

One of my favorite Albums of all time is the epic Van Halen. This debut album is one of the great albums that influenced 80s metal and rock. The album was released in 1978 and has sold millions of worldwide. It feature the tight bass grooves by bassist Michael …

I bought the CD Hopes and Fears basically because of the song “Everybody’s Changing”. I just fell inlove with it the first time I heard it, so I told myself I have to buy the CD. Hopes and Fears is Keane’s debut album and contains 12 songs. I must …

Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his record Bringing It All Back Home. Beginning with an outtake of the band recording, the track soon launches into the actual recording of the track which immediately has some differences to Dylan’s songs on the …

Sweetheart Like You is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his album Infidels. The song opens up in an extremely melodic and slow moving fashion where Dylan sings along with a piano and some clean guitar parts. The music really isn’t doing all that much and it’s …

The right kind of music soundtrack is crucial for a particular type of movie and for that, Defiance by James Newton Howard works for me. I listened to the songs inside and I certainly think it matched the concept of the movie, Defiance. On some circumstances, even if …

Bryan Adams is my favorite rock singer. He basically sings arena and soft rock songs. What I like most about his songs is his unorthodox voice that complements kind of songs perfectly that he sings. Also, his his guitar notes and lyrics are easy flowing, understandable , and most …

Sometimes, the best things are found in the strangest of places. From the midst of the often incredibly angsty underground music scene comes a completely unexpected ray of sunshine in the form of a band with a typically ironic name — Cheap Seats.
The band at first glance is rather …

Opeth have always been a band of new beginnings, and on their fifth release “Blackwater Park”, they change it all up again.
Opeth are critically acclaimed for their re-invention of Death Metal back in the early Ninties. Fusing Folk and Death Metal and creating music that almost borders on the …

Overview - The Grateful Dead, the debut album of the band of the same name, introduces the band’s ability to write catchy songs and their ability to apply their style to a wide range of covers. The one word I can describe this album with is energetic. The energy …

This album is very entertaining and very well crafted. When I was a teenager, about fourteen or fifteen years old, two songs by Garbage were very often on the radio and on TV, with music videos: Shut Your Mouth and Cherry Lips. I remember how I liked those songs. …

Billy 1 is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his soundtrack for Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid. The song starts off with a nice acoustic guitar pattern as a bass line, another acoustic guitar, and a harmonica soon join in which gives the track a very …

What Happened is a song by Sublime and the fifteenth song to appear on their debut album entitled 40 Oz. To Freedom. Opening up with a clean guitar part, other instruments soon join in the mix as well and I must say that the percussion section does a nice …

I’ve been listening to Pleasure P’s Boyfriend Number 2 on YouTube for a while now and it has been my favorite song of his. I’m not a go out and buy posters type of girl, but I do like listening to Pleasure P’s music and I was even more …

Uprising, a very recent single released by Muse for their latest record The Resistance, has an extremely catchy vocal melody along with excellent lyrics and musical parts to go with it. Uprising starts out with a very space-like vibe and sound due to the synthesizer and the bass riff …

I Think I Can is a song by Animal Collective and the final track to appear on their EP Fall Be Kind. The main thing that I notice about I Think I Can is that it seems to sound similar to many of the other tracks on this EP …

I think that Bizzy Bone From Your Rightousness CD is pretty good. Now this is a independent release. It as only an internet release. But I think that this album is pretty good. Bizzy Bone raps about god and Jesus and spiritual things on this album. I really like all …

Metallica released the “Black Album” in 1991.To date it is the most popular album ever released in the Heavy Metal genre.I think the most significant thing about the album was it’s ability to recruit new fans who had never even heard of the band or the genre.The Black Album …

It has been long awaited for Hova aka Jay-Z to get back on ball with his flow. This album is a must have for any Jay-Z fan. This album is a definite must add to the Hova collection. Compared to his previous album “Kingdom Come” this album reigns supreme. …

As the front man of the popular Florida band Tabitha’s Secret and later of the more globally known Matchbox 20, Thomas performed very well. However, I feel that his most profound songwriting and performing ventures have been as a solo recording artist.
‘Smooth’ is a song with a slightly Spanish …

Lather is a song by Jefferson Airplane which appears on their album Crown Of Creation. The song starts off with a nice acoustic guitar part coming through the left channel before Grace Slick comes in with the vocals for the first verse. Thus far I enjoy the overall mood …

Good Lovin Outside is a song by Animal Collective and is the penultimate song on their album Sung Tongs. Opening with vocals right from the start, Good Lovin Outside takes on a tone which sounds somewhat hypnotizing to be honest. Perhaps this is just the way I hear the …

One of the things I bought online for my band awhile back is the PG24 wireless microphone by Shure. Since Im a guitarist, a very big part of the band is singing back up vocals and being able to sing harmonies with power and more volume I needed a …

The reason I decided to review this album in particular is because I consider it to be one of the most underrated albums of all time. You are probably thinking, “HAH! The Beatles… underrated?!” Yes, yes I’ve heard it before, but I’ve held onto my opinion over the years, …

Overview - Bringing It All Back Home, Bob Dylan’s fifth effort, is a record that is split up into two unique sides: one electric, one acoustic. This concept is a new idea by Dylan and this is the first record where he’s actually backed by a band rather than …

Sleepyhead is a song off of Passion Pit’s first EP, Chunk of Change, although it’s also on their first full album, Manners. Of all the songs that they have done, Sleepyhead is by far my favorurite, and I’ve had it on repeat for the last week, because it’s so …

Artist: SWV
Video: “Right Here (Human Nature Mix)”
Album: It’s About Time
Label: RCA Records
“Right Here (Human Nature Mix)” is the remixed version of SWV’s first hit single and music video “Right Here” (off of their debut album “It’s About Time”) and it does things a little more professionally this time around …

Alicia Keys is the R&B songstress that won the MTV ” Artist Of The Year” award in 1999 for bringing you hits like “A Womens Worth”, “You Don’t Know My Name”, “Fallin” and “Karma” and in 2005 MTV released the cd “Alicia Keys Unplugged” which is a live …

This is the second album released from heavy metal superstars Avenged Sevenfold. In comparison to the first album —˜City of Evil’, it’s just as heavy, just as raw, and just as brilliant. If you’re not a fan of metal music then I would stop reading this review right now! Not …

Enrique Iglesias is my favorite singer, and I love all of his songs. I have all of his sings, and I was waiting for a long time for this album called “Insomniac” to release. And when it got released in the mid June of 2007, I was pretty much …

Hold Your Head is a song by The Flaming Lips and the final track to appear on their album Hit To Death In The Future Head. Opening up with some incredibly grand and building percussion, I almost get the impression as if I’m listening to the score for a …